Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] when [pers pn] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | My boots and feet were smouldering when they found me . |
| 2 | Father-of-two Steve said : ‘ I thought they were joking when they said I was not sufficiently disabled . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You were drunk when you told me where to see her . |
| 4 | I 'm wearing a blue prison-issue shirt — open-neck , of course — and the jeans I was wearing when they arrested me . |
| 5 | I thought my friend , Irena , was joking when she dragged me , sloshing and sliding , towards the highway . |
| 6 | What I was thinking when she asked me , but , never mind ! |